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Abstract:
This talk will survey the basic concepts for the adaptation of linear or nonlinear systems with entropy and divergence using a new non parametric approach, which has been called information theoretic learning. Examples to engineering problems will be presented as well as to the design of brain
machine interfaces.
Background:
Researchers at the Department of Physics and Technology have since 2002 collaborated closely with members of the Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory
(CNEL) at the University of Florida. CNEL is founded and directed by Distinguished Professor Jose C. Principe. See http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/ for more information.
This collaboration has contributed to the development of a new machine learning paradigm, coined information theoretic learning. Jose Principe will give a survey of this research in his invited talk at the Department of Physics and Technology.
Biosketch - Jose C. Principe:
Jose C. Principe is Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at the
University of Florida since 2002. He joined the University of Florida in 1987, after an eight year
appointment as Professor at the University of Aveiro, in Portugal. Dr. Principe holds degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Porto (Bachelor), Portugal, University of Florida (Master and Ph.D.), USA and a Laurea Honoris Causa degree from the Universita Mediterranea in Reggio Calabria, Italy. Dr. Principe interests lie in nonlinear non-Gaussian optimal signal processing and modeling and in biomedical engineering. He created in 1991 the Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory to synergistically focus the research in biological information processing models. He recently received the Gabor Award from the International Neural Network Society for his contributions.
Dr. Principe is a Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the AIMBE, past President of the International Neural Network Society, and Past Editor in Chief of the Transactions of Biomedical Engineering, as well as a former member of the Advisory Science Board of the FDA. He holds 5 patents and has submitted seven more. Dr. Principe was supervisory committee chair of 50 Ph.D. and 61 Master students, and he is author of more than 400 refereed publications (3 books, 4 edited books, 14 book chapters, 116 journal papers and 276 conference proceedings).
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